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President Trump suddenly agrees to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, reversing decades of precedent on a whim.

International Women's Day, "that one special day for half the population of Earth. Knock yourselves out, three-and-a-half billion people!" A roundup of disturbing and disgusting responses from across the media, finishing with Vladimir Putin.

And Now: An MSNBC Guest, Brought On To Discuss Gary Cohn's Departure, Can't Get Over The "Bachelor" Finale.

Main Story: Cryptocurrencies, "Everything you don't understand about money combined with everything you don't understand about computers." In a field fulled with ridiculous terms like HODL and LAMBO, LWT invited an inspirational speaker (Keegan Michael Key) to promote their new way of dealing with cryptocurrencies, responsibility: "Instead of being HODL, you have to be CRAEFUL!"

English gangster Albert Spica has taken over the high-class Le Hollandais Restaurant, run by French chef Richard Boarst. Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs. His oafish behavior causes frequent confrontations with the staff and his own customers, whose patronage he loses, but whose money he seems not to miss.
Forced to accompany Spica is his reluctant, well-bred wife, Georgina, who soon catches the eye of a quiet regular at the restaurant, bookshop owner Michael. Under her husband's nose, Georgina carries on an affair with Michael with the help of the restaurant staff. (from Wikipedia.)posted by dnash to FanFare on Mar 14 at 9:35 AM 4 users marked this as a favorite

Putin wins reelection as President of Russia to no one's surprise, ensuring horrible threats, poisoned opponents and meddling in foreign elections for foreseeable future.

And Now: Local News Cannot Be Trusted With St. Patrick's Day

Main Story: Mike Pence, the hyper-fundamentalist, hyper-intolerant Vice President in the Trump Administration, and the one person in it Trump cannot fire. His opposition to gay rights is well known, but, as Oliver admits, he has a cute rabbit named "Marlon Bundo." Pence has a book out, A Day in the Life of the Vice President, about his rabbit. LWT is putting out another book, about a different rabbit named Marlon Bundo, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, where a boy rabbit falls in love with another boy rabbit. (See inside for more.)

Voyager has one of its strangest encounters yet when it comes across a human serviette wearing a tam o' shanter--wait [peers at index card] sorry, I thought that it said "Nardwuar"--why the heck am I still using index cards in the twenty-first century, anyway? We're getting warp drive in a few decades!posted by Halloween Jack to FanFare on Mar 12 at 7:19 AM 2 users marked this as a favorite

With the nominations for the Hugo Awards closing this Friday, I was wondering if anyone was interested in Fanfare posts for Hugo nominations? I know of at least one in the Graphic Story category, and would like to go ahead and share it.posted by happyroach to FanFare on Mar 12 at 2:34 PM 2 users marked this as a favorite

a.k.a. Zaat. "Is The Monster Man...Fish...Or Devil?" "It Would Take An Atom Bomb To Wipe Out The Walking Catfish!" "WARNING! Positively no one admitted during last 15 minutes!" Sargassum! After a short, nonsensical narration of an aquarium, a scientist charts on his gigantic circular day-planner his revenge on the scientific establishment, and the world that shunned his ideas, by turning himself into a monster that he calls (but isn't) a fish, then sets about making himself a fishy mate, while very southern authorities try to stop him. We've been through some adventures, haven't we? Well here's one more, the last of what I'd call the extreme pain category of episodes. Great host segments in this one! This episode is available to watch on YouTube. Premiered June 27, 1998. Eight episodes left.posted by JHarris to FanFare on Mar 14 at 11:00 PM 2 users marked this as a favorite

A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.posted by MoonOrb to FanFare on Mar 16 at 8:01 PM 2 users marked this as a favorite

Hey, this show still exists! Mr. Frond invents a new playground sport that (surprisingly) takes Wagstaff Elementary by storm: Ga-Ga Ball. Gene, having no affinity for the game, feels left out as the sport consumes every aspect of school social life. Meanwhile, Linda and Teddy work to put on the best toddler story-time ever.posted by codacorolla to FanFare on Mar 12 at 11:09 AM 1 user marked this as a favorite

“There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself — not just sometimes but always. When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in ... Nothing really interested him — least of all the things that should have.”posted by roger ackroyd to FanFare on Feb 26 at 9:36 PM 1 user marked this as a favorite

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I should say that I mixed the climax. My four year old got upset when Charles Wallace was yelling at Mr. Murry--for one, she apparently thinks Chris Pine looks like Daddy, and for another she's consistently terrified of plot points where formerly nice characters suddenly turn evil. Monsters and skeletons are fine, but that kind of trickery is just... [more]posted by PhoBWanKenobi to FanFare on Mar 15 at 7:09 AM 8 users marked this as a favorite

No, I got the reference. It was cute, but I am firmly Team Shangie Was Robbed.
I am really disappointed with this season as a whole. It just seemed rushed, and all the twists were forced and did nothing to make the show better. I mean you don't give an eliminated queen a short cut to final four. I mean you know she's just gunna get booted the... [more]posted by Jilder to FanFare on Mar 18 at 7:51 PM 8 users marked this as a favorite

There never really was a "good time" to buy Bitcoin except at the ground floors of pump'n'dumps and rando companies super-early-on/before they did the stupid exploit of name dropping "blockchain."
When the getting was good, the getting out wasn't clear. It was once a PITA to exchange large amounts of BTC for actual... [more]posted by porpoise to FanFare on Mar 12 at 7:41 PM 7 users marked this as a favorite

The stuff with Trish is interesting to me thematically. I've been trying to organize my thoughts about it all day, but it's been a busy weekend. Attempting to speak usefully about it:
There's a parallel between Jessica's issues and Trish's - they both take after their mothers.
Jessica is angry, isolated and generally very Alisa-lite. This... [more]posted by mordax to FanFare on Mar 11 at 10:12 PM 6 users marked this as a favorite

Yeah, that’s one thing the books got really right about abuse, as well as the cycle of violence - like, in later books you understand /why/ Calvin’s mother is the way she is, after witnessing her brother beaten to the point of brain damage in front of her, and it still doesn’t make it in any way right, it doesn’t make up for it. It explains but... [more]posted by corb to FanFare on Mar 15 at 8:08 AM 6 users marked this as a favorite

When John Kelly's logs are played back and he is heard mentioning "pilot error", Tom Paris visibly flinches at this, remembering the flight accident at Caldik Prime that killed three officers – an accident he himself caused.
Man, Paris should meet that Nick Lorcarno guy sometime. They seem to have a lot in common.... [more]posted by Servo5678 to FanFare on Mar 15 at 5:05 AM 5 users marked this as a favorite

Watching UMBC break the press each time was like a heroic journey, watching a little 5'8" navigate around hostile giants doing everything possible, playing smart and ruthless defense (and getting away with a lot of physicality tbh...) In the second half UMBC was killing some time by being slow to inbound or slow to pick up the inbound... By... [more]posted by fleacircus to FanFare on Mar 16 at 9:00 PM 5 users marked this as a favorite

I think he does the character without previewing all the cue cards, and the whole game is for the writers to make him break.
Yeah iirc part of the running gag of Stefon is that John Mulaney, who showed up last night as the lawyer, "Shy", would actually switch out or add new jokes to the cue cards to try and make Hader break. I... [more]posted by lalex to FanFare on Mar 18 at 10:29 AM 5 users marked this as a favorite

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